Are you aiming to teach your Miniature Shar Pei to sit? The skill of sitting up is easily taught to very small dogs, yet larger pet dogs are another story. It is problematic for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Miniature Shar Pei to Sit: Prep work
Sitting is one of the fundamental tricks that should be taught to a Miniature Shar Pei and lays the groundwork for myriad other tricks. In order to train a Miniature Shar Pei to sit up, organize some treats as a perk, and place the Miniature Shar Pei on her butt in the corner, to make sure that she can not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Miniature Shar Pei to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Protect her from falling forward by holding 1 hand underneath her chin and using your other hand hold her reward above her face. Keep saying intelligibly and distinctly, “sit.” Do not make her sit up too long at one time, but do repeat the training frequently and reward her frequently with plenty of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Miniature Shar Pei to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In the 1st lesson your Miniature Shar Pei will call for quite a bit of assistance from your hand to stop her from pitching forward, but as she gains more control of the stabilizing muscles and grasps what you want her to do, she’ll rely less and less on your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less support til you’ll basically have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be ready to stop her from falling forward; eventually you can most likely take away the hand and just simply suspend the reward right above the height of her face.
Teach Your Miniature Shar Pei To Sit: Remove the Help Gradually
With regular training your Miniature Shar Pei will stay seated long after you get her to sit. Next she should be set against a wall, so as to give her assistance for her back only. Immediately after she has gotten the knack of this and can hold her posture effortlessly, practice with her using chair legs, pillows or other items that provide her less and less aid. At some point she will figure out how to keep her balance and sit up without something to lean against.
Teach Your Miniature Shar Pei to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious by regular repetition. Now comes the final lesson to teach your Miniature Shar Pei to sit up as quickly as she hears the command. Chances are, if she has been carefully taught, you will merely have to call her out in the room, show to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she will do so. Then you'll give her the snack while still in place.
The only condition for perfection is to rehearse with your Miniature Shar Pei multiple times a day until she will sit on command and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only once she has adhered to the order.
Teach Your Miniature Shar Pei Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Miniature Shar Pei many other tricks. She can now learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in rhythm with yours. She also can learn to salute by moving one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
When instructing a Miniature Shar Pei to accept being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many clothes at one time. Try her at first with just a hat. Only after she becomes used to that you can put on a coat and over time introduce her to the other garments.
Delight in "teaching your Miniature Shar Pei the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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